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Faith and Philosophy, 2000 It is clear from both his writings and lectures on religion that Wittgenstein thought that there are many differences in the standards and forms of justification informing religious and scientific discourses. However, the evidence of such differences can be used to support two quite different and conflicting lines of argument. On one apparently realist
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Against the Manhattan project framing of AI alignment
Mind &Language, EarlyView.In response to the worry that autonomous generally intelligent artificial agents may at some point take over control of human affairs a common suggestion is that we should “solve the alignment problem” for such agents. We show that current discourse around this suggestion often uses a particular framing of artificial intelligence (AI) alignment as ...
Simon Friederich, Leonard Dung
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WITTGENSTEIN AND BUDDHISM? ON ALLEGED AFFINITIES WITH ZEN AND MADHYAMAKA [PDF]
, 2015 : Buddhism is popular nowadays and so it becomes in analytic philosophy, as an increasing number of publications on possible intersections between analytic philosophy and Buddhism suggests.
DEMONT-BIAGGI, Florian
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The Unity of a Tractarian Fact [PDF]
, 2007 It is not immediately clear from Wittgenstein’s Tractatus how to connect his idea there of an object with the logical ontologies of Frege and Russell. Toward clarification on this matter, this paper compares Russell’s and Wittgenstein’s versions of the ...
Johnston, Colin
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
Mind &Language, EarlyView.It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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In the Beginning was the Work: Donald MacKinnon's Metaphysics after Lenin
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Donald MacKinnon expressed a distinctly realist and actualist metaphysic. One aspect of his metaphysics that is less frequently commented upon, however, is his reception of Vladimir Lenin. While not an unqualified admirer of Bolshevism, it is readily apparent that MacKinnon incorporated elements of Lenin's philosophy and theories regarding ...
Khegan M. Delport, Dritëro Demjaha
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Kalagatos, 2023 O artigo reflete a relação de proximidade e distância de Wittgenstein com o pensamento de Schopenhauer, a fim de elucidar os limites da influência deste em sua filosofia. Schopenhauer é presença marcante no pensamento do jovem Wittgenstein. Contudo, após
Marcelo Ferreira Ribas
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Ultra-low fertility in South Korea: The role of the tempo effect
Demographic Research, 2018 Background: The total fertility rate (TFR) in South Korea has fallen below 1.3 since 2001. The role of the rapid shift toward a late-childbearing pattern in driving Korean fertility decline to this ultra-low level has been little explored until now ...
Sam Hyun Yoo, Tomáš Sobotka
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the primacy of use over naming [PDF]
, 2019 In Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein proposed the notion of meaning that accounts for the large variety of contexts in which we apply the term “meaning”.
Sahu, Alok
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The Extraordinary and the Ordinary: The Possibilities and Problems of Eberhard Jüngel's Hermeneutics
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Eberhard Jüngel insists on the absolute transcendence of God and on human language as the vehicle for that transcendence. In doing so, he makes claims both about the power of language and the limits of humanity in relation to language. In exploring this tension, the essay will examine whether Jüngel successfully navigates the tension between ...
Deborah Casewell
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